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Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, Vol. 51, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE: Personality Development in Childhood and Adolescence (July 2005), pp. 315-334 (20 pages) While there is a general consensus that temperament ...

Attachment security was found to be related to the quality, but not frequency of conflict between mothers and their 2-year-olds. Observations with 60 mothers and their children at 30 months and 36 ...

Female rats that are apprehensive of new experiences as infants maintain that temperament and die earlier from mammary and pituitary tumors than do their more adventuresome sisters, according to new ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This study was designed to assess the potential convergence of 3 approaches to the description of temperament in the first month of life and ...